FAMILIARITY
is a generic feeling in which a situation, event, place, person or object directly provokes a subjective feeling of recognition…
FAMILY SCULPTING
is one of the many activities which are employed during family therapy sessions, where a member of the family will…
FAST MAPPING
is the seemingly fast ability for a young people, especially babies to learn entirely new words on the general understanding…
FAULT-TREE ANALYSIS
is a method of qualitative safety analysis whereby a potentially hazardous or accident prone system state is analyzed carefully using…
FECHNER'S PARADOX
the apparent increase in brightness of a figure caused by closing one eye after viewing the figure with both eyes…
FEELING OF KNOWING
the sense of conviction about an event, which can be quite accurate and distinct although it is not experienced as…
FIELD OF CONSCIOUSNESS
the term that is given to the total awareness of a person at any given time. It is what is…
FIGURE-DRAWING TEST
the term applied to a test in wher the person draws a human figure. It is used as a measure…
FILOPODIUM
a term that is used to describe the very fine and tubular growth out from a cell. This may be…
FIRST IMPRESSION
the term applied to the initial impression we have of another person when we meet them for the first time.…
FLEXION REFLEX
the term that describes an abrupt withdrawal of an arm or a leg that is in response to a painful…
FLOCCILLATION
used to describe the aimless grasping and plucking at clothing or bedding by a person suffering from dementia, delirium, extreme…
FLUENT SPEECH
This term is applied to speech that is essentially normal in quantity, stress, pitch, rhythm, and intonation. A person with…
FOCAL ATTENTION
name given to the attention we focus on a certain stimuli while disregarding the rest. Information in our attention span…